Git: Clone a Project

Clone a project means making a copy of an existing code base.

git clone url

• The url can be a local directory that contains a subdir named .git.
• It creates dir in current dir.
• The new dir has the same name as cloned project name.

# get a copy of git source code
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

# get a copy of the xah fly keys source code
git clone https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys

Clone without history

# clone a project without history
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys